Question on constitutional amendments?

Question

are amendments to the constitution able to override supreme court rulings??

and does the supreme court need to ratify amendments to the constitution for them to come into effect?

Answer 1

Amending the Constitution is a two-part process: amendments must be proposed and then they must be ratified. Amendments can be proposed one of two ways. The only way that has been used to date is through a two-thirds majority vote in both houses of Congress.

Regardless of how the amendment is proposed, the amendment must be approved by three-fourths of states, a process called ratification.

The Supreme Court has no say in this process.

Answer 2

an amendment can overule the supreme court, they have no say in amendments.

Answer 3

Yes, the Constitution overrides the Supreme court.  Amendments to the Constitution must be ratified by a 2/3Rd's majority of Congress, the Supreme Court has nothing to do with it!

Answer 4

This is the main way to override a Supreme Court decision. 2 examples would be first ,The 11th amendment to the Constitution . The Supreme Court had ruled that a State could be sued in court. This upset congress and the states so much that they passed an Amendment limiting the right to sue a State to those areas the State would allow itself to be sued over. Thus you have the 11th amendment. The 2nd example was in the Dred Scott case where the Court ruled that African Americans were NOT citizens of the United States and had no legal rights in the Constitution. The 14th amendment set up a new definition of what makes a citizen, based on where you are born and who your parents are, and thus allowed African Americans citizenship.

  These 2 are examples generally when things get to the point where the Supreme Court feels that an amendment is coming to limit their power their opinions are influenced. The members of the Supreme Court do read the newspapers and watch TV. Change does come. Look up what happened to the Court after President Roosevelt tried to "pack the court", in the 1930's. He failed BUT the court did change it's point of view.

  Proposal of amendments either involves 2/3rds of each

  Houses of Congress OR a Special Constitutional

  Convention called by 2/3rds of each House of Congress.

  and ratification by 3/4ths of the STATE LEGISLATURES

  OR A STATE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.

    The president and the Courts are NOT involved in the

    Proposal or ratification process. just congress and the

   States.

                            Hope that helps.  Packers.

Answer 5

To ratify an amendment, it needs 3/4 state approval, and 3/4 approval in the legislature.  the courts have nothing to do with them.  They would override the court rulings, UNTIL, the courts rule the amendment unconstitutional.